I have a quick question here. I just need to know how I can find out whether my motherboard is compatible with a SATA hard drive. A SATA hard drive apparently requires a sata port or a sata pci card. I'd also like to know what motherboards I could get if the one I currently have doesn't comply with sata. I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I was trying to find some info. on my motherboard so in the meantime I was hoping to get some help here. Thanks for any help.

IIRC, the mobo in the Dimension 2400 does not support SATA. You can get a SATA controller card. As for mobo suggestions, Intel or AMD?? AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Asus A7V600-X 512 MB of DDR RAM GeForce FX 5200 (256 MB) Seagate 120 GB SATA

Where could I get a SATA controller card? So with a SATA controller card I could then install a SATA drive in my Dimension 2400? As for the mobo suggestions, I happen to have an Intel Celeron.

Assuming you have an available PCI slot, go with a SATA controller card from Siig or Promise. Much easier solution. See links below. http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=7&pid=465 http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=7&pid=467 http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=108&familyId=2 http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=107&familyId=2 On the other hand, if you're intent on a new motherboard with SATA, TigerDirect has all types from $30 to over $200; see link .... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1347 Good luck, Sandor